The Yendi Municipal Directorate of Education and the Yendi Municipal Assembly are to revamp the District Education Oversight Committee (DEOC) to raise the fallen standards of education in the municipality.

Mr. Issah Zakaria, Yendi Municipal Chief Executive, said this when he briefed 204 head teachers and 16 circuit supervisors drawn from Yendi Municipality and Mion District at a meeting on improving management supervision, monitoring and accountability in schools.

He said the Yendi Municipal Directorate of Education and the Yendi Municipal Assembly would intensify visits to schools to ensure that teacher absenteeism in schools in the municipality were minimized or completely eradicated.

He said the Ministry of Education was trying to liaise with the universities to see how teachers could go about their sandwich courses because about 70 percent of them (teachers) are doing the sandwich courses.

He said the fallen standard of education in the area was serious, and as chairman of DEOC he would join the supervision teams in visiting the schools to ensure that the situation was improved.

Mr. Zakaria said any head teacher who was not performing would be sent back to the classroom and give way to qualified head teachers to take over.

He said head teachers who connived with teachers to use school hours to do business would be sanctioned when caught.

Alhaji Mahama Shamrock, the Assistant Director of Education at the Yendi Municipality, assured that the Municipal Directorate of Education had good head teachers to help improve the standard of education in the municipality.